Key facts and rankings

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General info

1.academic staff

1564

Number of academic staff. Data is obtained from national agencies such as National Ministry of Education, National Bureau of Statistics, National Association of Universities and Colleges, National Rector's Conference.

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University of British Columbia

10186

2.year established

1865

The university's long history can indicate excellent traditions and more resources. Source: university's official website, 2018.

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University of Oxford

1096

3.student unions

1019

A students' union, student government, free student union, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges and universities and many high schools. In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organisational activities, representation and academic support of the membership. Source: university's official website, 2018.

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Arizona State University

1100

4.endowment

5.49$ billion

A financial endowment is a transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution. In the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institution sometimes contribute capital to the endowment. Source: Wikipedia, 2018.

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Harvard University

32$ billion

5.alumni network

265680

An alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students (alumni). In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organization. Source: university's official website, 2018.

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University of Illinois at Chicago

600000

6.extracurricular activities

1019

A wide range of extracurricular activities, like sports, drama, choir classes, research trips, ect. shows that university supports not only academical interests of students but also their hobbies. Source: university's official website, 2018.

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Pennsylvania State University

1200

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Admissions

1.enrolled students

22400

Enrolled students include both undergraduate and graduate students. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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University of Rome La Sapienza

128963

2.admission rate

17%

An admission rate shows the percentage of applicants that was accepted by university. Low acceptance rate makes it difficult to get a place, but also can indicate the prestige and high education level. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Aarhus University

3.3%

3.graduate students

8242

A high number of Masters and PhD students can indicate that the university has a research focus. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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University of Barcelona

36036

4.undergraduate students

14158

Undergraduate education is an education level taken in order to gain one's first tertiary degree. When you're studying at bigger university you have better possibilities of networking and usually an access to better resources. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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University of Rome La Sapienza

108648

5.percentage of asian students

16.5%

Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Waseda University

86.5%

6.average admission SAT score

1415

The SAT is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. SAT scores indicate how hard it is to get in to a university and can also indicate the level of educational requirements. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Vanderbilt University

2180

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Facilities

1.cost of room and board

16200$

The approximate cost of room and board per academic year. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Bauman Moscow State Technical University

0$

2.medical facilities

4

Source: university's official website, 2018.

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University of California, San Francisco

34

3.library collection

16140000

With a bigger library collection, the university can offer more books, magazines, online resources, etc. to its students. Source: university's official website, 2018.

The number of students that can be hosted in dormitories. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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University of California, Los Angeles

25147

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Rankings

1.position on Times Higher Education ranking

18

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual ranking published by the British magazine “Times Higher Education”. Information is supplied by Thomson Reuters and provides performance based data. Main ranking indicators are based on the universities' core missions- teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

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California Institute of Technology

1

2.U.S. News rank

14

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities. Source: U.S. News, 2018.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1

3.ARWU rank

13

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. Source: ARWU, 2018.

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Harvard University

1

4.Forbes rank

19

According to the Forbes' annual list of America’s 650 Top Colleges. The rankings focus on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt. Source: Forbes, 2018.

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Stanford University

1

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Honors

1.Nobel laureats staff

28

Source: Nobel Prize's website, 2018.

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Harvard University

66

2.Nobel laureats alumni

13

The total number of the alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. Alumni are defined as those who obtain bachelor, Master's or doctoral degrees from the institution. Source: Nobel Prize's website, 2018.

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University of Cambridge

78

3.Rhodes scholars

5

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for selected foreign students to study at the University of Oxford.[1] It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the world's most prestigious scholarship. Source: university's official website, 2018.

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Harvard University

332

4.Pulitzer Prize winners

3

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. Source: http://www.pulitzer.org/, 2018.

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Yale University

56

5.Is a member of the Ivy League

Cornell University

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. Source: university's official website, 2018.

6.Turing Award winners

3

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The Turing Award is recognized as the highest distinction in Computer science and Nobel Prize of computing. Source: ACM A.M. Turing's website, 2018.

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Stanford University

28

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Tuition & Aid

1.tuition fees per year

43504$

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition, refer to the annual fee charged for educational instruction during higher education. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Aarhus University

0$

2.tuition fees per year for international students

43504$

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition, refer to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Weizmann Institute of Science

0$

3.grants per year per student

19125$

The average amount of funding that is available for a student per academic year (grants, scholarships and/or financial aid given to eligible students). Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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Dartmouth College

61398$

4.tuition fee growth rate

4.5%

A lower growth rate for tuition fees indicates that the cost of studying at the university is not increasing too quickly year on year. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

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University of Heidelberg

-100%

5.average financial aid

245$ million

A general amount of financial aid for students in millions of dollars. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.